Shepherd to Lytton
Hudson's Bay House
July 1858
Sir
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Merivale's letter of the 29th Ultimo, transmitting, by your direction, a copy of a Despatch received from Governor Douglas on the subject of the gold field on Fraser's River, and of the answer which you proposed to return thereto, and I beg, on the part of the Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, to express their thanks for this communication.
I have the honour to be Sir,
Your obedt humble Servant
John Shepherd
Govr
The Right Honble Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart
&c &c &c
Colonial Office
Minutes by CO staff
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ABd. 2 July. HM Jy 2 C. July 3
Shepherd, Captain, HBC Governor John to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer June 1858, CO 6:26, no. 6305, 443. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B585HB06.html.

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